Name: _______________________________

Personification Worksheet 6
Directions: In each sentence, an object or idea is personified. Identify the object or idea that is
being personified and explain which human trait or action is applied to the object or idea.

Personification: a figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human traits or
characteristics.

1. Your little voice

Over the wires came leaping
and I felt suddenly dizzy

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

2. Love built himself a house,

And whoso entered in, Love bade him stay,
Nor ever from that feast to come away
Dissatisfied or weary of the fare
Love set him there.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________

3. While through the windows, steel-barred, stern and tall,

Pale daylight greets us like a plaintive song.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________

4. And, as of old, in the horizon-sky,

The sun can find a lovely place to die.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________

5. The nights went by like the moaning wind
And the days like drifting snow.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________

6. Then you came with flowers crowned and sun-kissed hair.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________

7. Wasting the golden hours indoors,

Washing windows and scrubbing floors,
While happy winds go laughing by.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

8. Over the snow my creaking feet

Disturbed the slumbering village street

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________

9. They danced until the shy moon looking down

Deemed herself lost above some Grecian glade;

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

10. Beyond the cliffs brown fishing boats go by

Under the reach of the wide laughing sky.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________